Obsolete:Enroll External Database Release Notes

• Prevent multiple execution by setting a flag in the config table.
• Makes courses found in the external course table that do not have enrollments.
• Implemented the cron method.
• Added unlimited execution time and raised memory limit for enrol/database/enrol_database_sync.php
• Added enrollment periods. The external enroll table can have timestart and timeend for enrollments. Added two new mappings to handle this: enrol_db_remotetimestartfield and enrol_db_remotetimeendfield.
• Added a new external table that holds course information. The mapping is stored in enrol_coursetable. The following are the available mappings:
  • enrol_coursefullname
  • enrol_courseshortname
  • enrol_courseid: The name of the field where the course ID is stored. The values of this field are used to match those in the "enrol_localcoursefield" field in Moodle's course table.
  • enrol_coursesummary
  • enrol_coursecategory
  • enrol_category_separator
  • enrol_coursestartdate
  • enrol_courseformat
  • enrol_coursetheme
  • enrol_coursepassword
  • enrol_courseguest
  • enrol_coursenumsections
  • enrol_courseidnumber
  • enrol_coursecost
  • enrol_coursenewsitems
  • enrol_courseshowgrades
  • enrol_coursegroupmode
  • enrol_coursegroupmodefoce
  • enrol_coursevisible
  • enrol_courseenrollable
  • enrol_coursetemplate: this mapping can be used to override enrol_db_template to select a different course as a template.
• enrol_restore_coursetemplate
• enrol_restore_usetemplate
• Courses that are found in the external course table and also be updated. This is controlled by the enrol_db_autoupdate setting.
• Categories can automatically be created if needed. This is controlled by the enrol_autocreate_category setting.